Madra
Fiction Emma Hutton Fiction Emma Hutton

Madra

Fiction

Madra, by Emma Hutton, won the Mairtin Crawford Award in 2019: My name is Madra. Where I come from it means dog. My mother said that when I was born I was red with fury and howling at the moon. For eighteen years, I have lived in a stone house that’s built on black land that sinks. My blood is close to the skin; you can see the branching of my veins. I like to run my hands over doorframes and pull out the splinters. I like to eat gravy with a spoon. I like to pinch the petals off asters and think about the motherless butcher’s girl.

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The Gestures
Poetry of Life Fred Pollack Poetry of Life Fred Pollack

The Gestures

Poetry of Life

Poetry is about something. It is neither wordplay for its own sake nor navelgazing. I believe with the ancients that “as above, so below”; but for me “below” is the self and “above” is history, which includes the future.

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Miss-Communication
Fiction Joanna Walsh Fiction Joanna Walsh

Miss-Communication

Fiction

Funded by the Markievicz Award in the Republic of Ireland, which commemorates Irish women of the past hundred years, on International Women’s Day Joanna Walsh’s AI, by her very existence, poses some questions: how does gender relate to language? How are women’s words and history recorded and commemorated? What is the economic status of the contemporary female ‘content provider’? And where, in our digital world, does creative autonomy reside?

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from FAILSAFE: a choreography
Fiction Scott Thurston Fiction Scott Thurston

from FAILSAFE: a choreography

Fiction

New from Scott Thurston, FAILSAFE is an ongoing series of choreographic prose poems: Amongst them I found behind whenever you remember: prepare a meal for God. A lighter touch, toy soldiers rescale. This edge, again, of how far to dress up, curate and present the desperate and contingent. Realised I’d interpreted space behind as moving backwards.

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Pessoa’s Dream
Transitions Charles Putschkin Transitions Charles Putschkin

Pessoa’s Dream

Transitions

Pessoa’s Dream” is a stream-of-consciousness poem that begins and ends as a reflection on Fernando Pessoa’s The Book of Disquiet, and which, in between those reflections, emerges as a whistle-stop tour of literary and philosophical associations — James Joyce, Henry David Thoreau, Slavoj Zizek and Stefan Zweig all get a mention whilst René Guenon, although not mentioned by name, lingers in the periphery.

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An Encounter
Poetry of Life Terri Mullholland Poetry of Life Terri Mullholland

An Encounter

Poetry of Life

I always went to the edge of the woods when I needed to be alone. On the far side, before it dropped down to the railway line, there was a low dry-stone wall, crumbling away, that made the perfect seat. It was incredibly peaceful; you could hear yourself think, work things out in your head. Once an hour, there was a roar of the high-speed train from the city, like a round of applause.

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Twisted, Crumpled
Fiction C.D. Rose Fiction C.D. Rose

Twisted, Crumpled

Fiction

Twisted, Crumpled is a new story by C. D. Rose: No one knows what the man, who may have been a Danish film director or a French art dealer or a Ukrainian journalist, was doing in the Pallonetto, a neighbourhood rarely frequented by tourists even of the more intrepid kind. No one, victim and perp aside, saw the theft happen. The man had been walking along the seafront at Santa Lucia, it was suggested, and only ended up in the warren of the Pallonetto as he attempted to give chase to the tyke.

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Unwanted Colour Schemes
Poetry of Life Iain Britton Poetry of Life Iain Britton

Unwanted Colour Schemes

Poetry of Life

All this is very much existential poetry in its various forms. The poems are layered and intellectually meant to involve the reader - one which I hope would allow him or her to enter a world which stretches the imagination, opens up new perspectives and alternative fields of creativity.

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A Matter of Opinion
Poetry of Life Stephen Baily Poetry of Life Stephen Baily

A Matter of Opinion

Poetry of Life

Up in the state capital, the legislature was debating a bill designed to make it tougher for workers injured on the job to become millionaires. Robinson A. Rocker, whose carpal-tunnel syndrome accounted for his fervent opposition to the proposal, was—to the further detriment of his wrists—typing a spirited editorial in favour of it when Bev, the newsroom receptionist, poked her head in the fishbowl, as everybody, excluding him, called his small glass-enclosed office.

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Artefacts of Articulation
Poetry of Life Venkata Rayudu Posina Poetry of Life Venkata Rayudu Posina

Artefacts of Articulation

Poetry of Life

These poems came about in the course of my ongoing efforts to understand consciousness. The lines aspire to an Escherian geometry (unsettling familiarity--of seeing, thinking, and feeling--in ways) often associated with poetry. I feel my poetry is intimate--reflecting conscious experience itself within itself.

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Ghosts Passing along Sunset Boulevard
Fiction Hiromi Suzuki Fiction Hiromi Suzuki

Ghosts Passing along Sunset Boulevard

Fiction

A new story by Hiromi Suzuki: I go out to buy a toothbrush or something, return to my apartment keeping with coins in pocket of my overcoat. I am not sure whether I should choose a light bulb of 80 or 100 watts for my bathroom. The light bulb in my brain is also about to burn out. I cannot enter my room because of the lost key.

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Point and Click
Images Tristan Onek Images Tristan Onek

Point and Click

Images

Point and Click is a new experiment that combines generative visual artwork with pointillist aesthetics, in order to create a type of new media that resembles old paintings. Taking inspiration from artists such as Georges Seurat and Vincent van Gogh, this work honours their contributions by applying their methods to art created through artificial programs.

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